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Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride Edit Storyline A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world. 30 September 2014 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Despite the shows claims, the Peaky Blinders were strongest in the 1890s. By the 1920s the predominant gang in Birmingham was 'The Birmingham Gang' which had its roots from the pre-war 'Brummagem Boys' gang. See more » Goofs When the characters are supposed to speak in Gypsy language they are actually talking in Romanian. See more » Quotes Grace Burgess : You think I am a whore? Tommy Shelby : Everyone's a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves. (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews I for one am a huge fan of this compelling series. A wonderful dark industrial landscape, great soundtrack, rich characters that have real depth played by quality actors, all to the tune of a great script and an interesting time line.

You an clearly see the similarities with the high quality US series and they have gone for this market and there is clearly lots here that could make it a fantastic long running series. Sadly, I am concerned that the BBC won't be able to retain the quality levels and we won't see it evolve in the way that the sopranos (yes I compare this show to the sopranos and boardwalk empire) evolved. Please push this internationally, let's keep it on our screens and see it develop. This period in UK history is rich with trauma, upheaval and change, the backdrop of industrial Birmingham is new and trumps the well trodden New York, Chicago, and London gangster scenes. For writers and producers this represents very fertile ground and allows innovative story lines to emerge. Keep peaky blinders on our screens..... The campaign starts here! 107 of 116 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Peaky Blinders 2: Birmingham City fans angry after new 'inappropriate' TV trailer is axed - Mirror Online Peaky Blinders 2: Birmingham City fans angry after new 'inappropriate' TV trailer is axed Yesterday's screening was billing as "Peaky Blinders Day" Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email A half-time screening of a trailer for the new season of the BBC's gritty historic crime drama Peaky Blinders has been banned over fears it would be too violent. Football fans attending Birmingham City Football Club's league championship home game against Leeds United yesterday were set to get a sneak preview of season two, which features Hollywood star Tom Hardy. However, the trailer was pulled by the club, after liaising with the BBC, because it was thought some of the footage's content may be inappropriate for younger fans and children in the stands. Some fans took to social media to express their anger at the decision to axe the screening, but the club said it was "not appropriate for daytime viewing".

Peaky Blinders 2 is coming soon The show's first-season run was broadcast on a slot well after the 9pm watershed, when it aired last year. The critically-acclaimed drama starring 28 Days Later's Cillian Murphy as Tommy, the head of the Shelby crime family, has been a big hit with viewers. Its Birmingham setting - creator is city native Steven Knight - has also made it hugely popular on the terraces at the Blues, where a chant referring to the programme's title has been adopted. The popularity has not gone unnoticed by the club which had ramped up publicity in the run-up to yesterday's screening, billing it "Peaky Blinders Day". Video Loading Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now It also launched a line of Blues-branded flat caps in the club shop, which had sold out before kick-off. On the day, hundreds of fans got into the spirit, donning 1920s braces, tailored waistcoats, shirts and caps - although minus the hidden razor blades in their peaks, which had originally given the violent gang its name.

In a statement, the club said: "We were delighted to be approached by the BBC to screen the new trailer to the second series of the Peaky Blinders at St Andrew's. "However, having only received and reviewed the footage late on Friday night, it was deemed not appropriate for daytime viewing." A 15-second sneak preview trailer for season two, released by the BBC at the end of July, has had 2.18 million hits on YouTube. The new series, featuring Sam Neill and also Helen McCrory as the Shelby family matriarch, is scheduled to air on television screens on BBC Two in October. It is reported the teaser trailer will be available from tomorrow. * Peaky Blinders' second series will air at the on BBC Two in autumn 2014 Like this? Did you know we have a dedicated TV and Film page on Facebook? Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Peaky Blinders recap: episode one | Television & radio | The Guardian Peaky Blinders: episode by episode Peaky Blinders recap: episode one This Birmingham-set gangster drama is British telly trying to do US-style box set viewing. But it's styled like a John Lewis ad with almost as many cliches.

Will you keep watching? Joe Cole, Cillian Murphy et al go in search of "the gons" in the BBC's pop video-style Peaky Blinders. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Tiger Aspect Thursday 12 September 2013 17.00 EDT First published on Thursday 12 September 2013 17.00 EDT Share on Messenger Close SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching series one of Peaky Blinders . Don't read on if you haven't seen episode one. Birmingham, England, 1919. In the first episode of BBC2's new period gangster drama/steampunk beer commercial, we learn that Brum's postwar slums were mostly peopled with actors who weren't from there. Before we even get to the amazing set design or the slick, ad-style art direction, or the way Sam Neill keeps a straight face when he says, "It's beaver", we need to tackle two problems. The accents are all over the shop and the dialogue is often eye-poppingly bad.

That said, Cillian Murphy , Helen McCrory and Sam Neill count for a lot, even when they aren't entirely sure which city they come from. The angular and brilliantly impassive Murphy stars as Tommy Shelby, new head of Birmingham's criminal overlords, the Peaky Blinders, so named because they have razorblades in their caps which they use to, you know, blind people. He's back from Flanders Fields, the exposition tells us, minus his libido and intent on increasing the gang's profits. Aunt Polly ( McCrory on her usual roaring form ) has been minding the shop and sits in the unofficial driving seat of their bookmaking and robbing business, clearly doing all the thinking. When we meet them, Tommy has just taken part in a to-order robbery during which his men mistook a consignment of four motorbikes for a load of machine guns and ammo destined for Libya. They didn't bother to open the crate first.

With the Troubles in Ireland reaching the boil, it's assumed that the IRA took the guns (or "gons" as everyone pronounces it here) and Belfast's best copper CI Campbell (Neill) is dispatched to Birmingham on a noisy, hurtling steam train to sort it out. As we leave them at the close of this week's opener, Grace the Irish songbird meets Sam Neill in an art gallery and turns out to be working undercover for him, to try and find out what happened to the gons. "That the IRA murdered my father will not affect my judgment," she says to Campbell, so we know she has an agenda. Danny, his death successfully faked, is bound for London but it's not clear whether he's taking the gons with him. And Grace and Tommy exchange looks in the street to denote their growing interest in one another. Peaky Blinders doesn't so much sidestep gangster cliches as fling its arms round them. For a channel which can make fascinatingly impenetrable stuff like The Shadow Line and stylish yet substantial stuff like The Hour , the dialogue is just too dim. In all other respects, they're going for a British Deadwood . Every frame is from an advert/pop video.

Realism has been ditched in favour of male extras, stripped to the waist, swinging hammers in front of fiery furnaces while a covers band has a go at Ocean Colour Scene's back catalogue. Peaky Blinders's own Way Down in the Hole is Nick Cave's Red Right Hand which tops and tails every episode. This is definitely British TV trying to do a US-style box set drama. It's got ambition and scale and considerable skill has gone into the visual side of things. But what happened with the script? Bad speaking Here's my weekly round-up of the Miley-Cyrus-on-a-wrecking-ball lines which knocked me out of the story: Campbell chides the police for letting the gang get the better of them: "Goddamn you for soiling your uniforms." No one even giggles. This one made me open my eyes so wide my headphones fell off. The new Irish barmaid convinces the landlord to give her a job by saying: "In Ireland my singing made them cry and stopped them fighting." And Winston Churchill says to Chief Inspector Campbell on a train: "Love the hat." Campbell: "Thanks. It's beaver." Not a flicker.

Truly, writer Steven Knight has the balls of a metal man. Cliche watch To say there are quite a lot of cliches in Peaky Blinders is like saying there are a lot of people in brown coats: Tommy's star entrance involves him cruising into town on a horse, hat covering his eyes, humble paupers scattering to denote his status. The Chinese quarter is indicated with red lanterns and humble folk sweating over woks. All the men who went to war have come back with shellshock/flashbacks/opium habits. There is a wondering priest ( Benjamin Zephaniah ) straight out of a Tom Waits video, telling anyone who'll listen that the almighty is coming to clean up their wicked city. Campbell arrives in Birmingham in a cab which "won't go any further" and en route passes a shagging couple on a street corner and a man being sick. Grace the Irish barmaid/angel of Galway walks through the cinder-covered streets, ash particles catching the light of the braziers like she's in a John Lewis commercial at Christmas. What did you think of episode one? Will you be back next week, or would you rather sit round a drug candle and remember the Somme?

Let us know your thoughts below. Julia Raeside: The final episode brings shirt-pressing and many more whiskies, but will the series end with a bang? Published: 17 Oct 2013 Julia Raeside: The Campbell/Tommy/IRA plotline reached its denouement, but there was still time to chuck in a new character – with dramatic consequences Published: 10 Oct 2013 Cillian Murphy talks to Gwilym Mumford about his new drama series and why he felt he had to play the lead role of Tommy Shelby Published: 11 Sep 2013 Julia Raeside: It's all kicking off between the Lees and the Shelbys – and between Campbell and Tommy.

But there's still a problem with clunky exposition Published: 3 Oct 2013 Peaky Blinders: The tricks of creating a TV drama - BBC News BBC News Peaky Blinders: The tricks of creating a TV drama By Ian Youngs Entertainment reporter, BBC News 10 September 2013 Close share panel Media captionPeaky Blinders is based on a gang who hid blades in the peaks of their caps How do you build an illegal 1920s betting den from scratch for a major TV drama? Paint the walls with nicotine, use maple syrup for fake spit and get inspiration from Google Images, according to the man who built the set for BBC Two's Peaky Blinders. The walls of the Peaky Blinders production office are plastered with pinned-up pictures - sketches of set designs, film stills and real mugshots of dodgy-looking characters from the 1920s. One picture on the wall is a photo of a Prohibition-era New York bar. "It was off the internet," says production designer Grant Montgomery.

"I just pumped in 'saloons' [to Google] and suddenly this came up." The bar from that photo has been rebuilt in a TV studio, with a few minor adjustments, to double as a pub in the grimy backstreets of Birmingham, England. "It just had the right feel," Montgomery says. "I just thought, right, let's use it." Image caption Production designer Grant Montgomery is in charge of creating the sets Image caption Montgomery begins with hand-drawn sketches Image caption Locations, such as this street in Liverpool, bring the design to life Image caption The set for the Garrison Tavern pub was built inside a TV studio in Leeds Image caption The pub is at the heart of the drama about the Birmingham gang in the 1920s The pub is the Garrison Tavern, the hangout for the notorious Peaky Blinders gang. The drama is based on the real Peaky Blinders - so called because they had razor blades hidden in the peaks of their caps - who terrorised south-east Birmingham at the end of the 19th Century.

With the drama shifting to the 1920s, the six-part epic stars Cillian Murphy as gang leader Thomas Shelby and Sam Neill as the police officer sent on the trail of a shipment of stolen guns. The Garrison Tavern has ended up as a cross between an American speakeasy and a spit and sawdust British boozer. There is sawdust on the floor. As for the spit, a special recipe has been used to fill the metal spittoons at the foot of the bar, into which tobacco-chewing regulars would discharge. For the magic of TV, it has been made from chopped dates, maple syrup and sugar. Image caption New doors are scratched with coins to make them look aged In another part of the TV studio in Leeds, around the corner from the Garrison Tavern set, there is a structure housing a faithfully recreated fussy front room. Period furniture and ornaments have come from prop houses and second hand stores and the wallpaper has been reproduced from a design in a 1902 pattern book. Proud portrait photographs of Murphy and his co-stars in World War I uniforms stand on shelves. Little details are key to creating a convincing set.

A door leads to a betting den, complete with discoloured sporting posters, replica racing newspapers and top hats that have been left on the tables, looking as if the gangsters have just popped out. One alien item on the set is a modern plastic box, which contains dozens of cigarette butts waiting to fill the bookie's ashtrays. With the props in place, the crew must give it a lived-in feel. So they have repeatedly painted the walls and ceiling with a nicotine solution to mimic years of smoking stains, and brand new wooden doors have been painted and then scratched with coins to make them look aged. Back upstairs in the production office, pictures from the 1980 western epic Heaven's Gate provide a further clue about where Montgomery has found inspiration for the look and feel of the Peaky Blinders' world. Montgomery is in charge of designing the sets and has also worked on period dramas including Birdsong and The Crimson Petal And The White. Western inspiration For Peaky Blinders, he says he wanted to combine gritty British gangster realism with the brooding mood of Hollywood's wild west. "The script was extremely cinematic," he explains. "I was reading it and suddenly thought, wow, it's like a western.

"I went and looked at Heaven's Gate, and I suggested to the director, 'That's got a great look to it, it's got a great scale'. So we started from that basis. We used that as our kind of benchmark, our stepping off point. It was one of the key influences." Historical accuracy is still important, though, he insists. "There is a lot of research done. It's finding out about the right canal boats. Finding out about the right wallpapers. But if you're too slavish to it, I think it becomes a little dead, so you do want to infuse it a little bit with some drama." At the start of the first episode, Cillian Murphy rides his horse down the main street - an apparent reference to Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter. Turn back time The street itself, around which most of the action is set, was actually filmed in Liverpool. Mr Montgomery's search for a road to use for filming led him to a condemned and uninhabited street of terraced houses. He says his job was to turn it back in time. "Basically you have to take everything out. There are satellite dishes, there are trees," he says.

"They didn't have trees there so we had to cut the trees down. We had to replace all the windows, we replaced all the doors. "We painted every house black. The combination of coal fires and industrial smoke created smog and it affected the stone. So we had to paint all of this black. "Road surfacing goes in to give it a different kind of feel. We brought slurry in, which was an organic combination of mulch and earth and sand. These are the things you do. There's a company who do all this. You discuss the colour, the texture, the nature of what you're trying to create." A lot of effort goes into getting the appearance right. But if viewers focus on the drama and do not give the sets a second thought, Montgomery and his team will have done a good job. Peaky Blinders Series 2: Meet the gang on the buzzing set of Birmingham's hit TV drama - Birmingham Mail News Peaky Blinders Series 2: Meet the gang on the buzzing set of Birmingham's hit TV drama The Birmingham-set gangster drama Peaky Blinders is back on screen with its second series next week.

Roz Laws goes on set for a sneaky peek Share Peaky Blinders Series 2 behind the scenes. Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby Share Get Black Country updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email It's a beautifully sunny, sharp winter’s day at the Black Country Living Museum . A bit too sunny, actually. Filming for Peaky Blinders is held up while we wait for it to become overcast and suitably brooding. Apparently the sun rarely shone in the brutal gangland world of 1920s Birmingham. And just to add to the atmosphere, fake smoke bellows out of a machine. We wait and wait, until the clouds come over – and finally Cillian Murphy appears for his scene. There is a ripe smell in the air as Cillian’s character of gangster Tommy Shelby forks manure in the stables while having a conversation with Charlie Strong (Ned Dennehy). Tommy may be the feared leader of the ruthless Peaky Blinders gang, but he’s not above getting his hands dirty.

The six-part BBC2 series is very firmly set in the Birmingham of 1922, but the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley is the closest that filming comes to the city. They are shooting here for just three days, using the canal and dressing the rolling mill with iron work, statues, bales of hay and horses. The blacksmith’s forge is also used for a dramatic scene in the first episode when Tommy is sent to shoot someone. On the first day, filming continued until 11pm as fire belched out of a furnace. Video Loading Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now Watch Next Kevin Lowe, from Tipton, a metal worker demonstrator and nail maker at the museum, was an extra in the scene and taught two members of cast the basics of how to heat up metal and hit it to make sparks fly. Today, on one of the first days of filming the second series, the set is buzzing with executives who have come to have a look. Among them is Birmingham writer Steven Knight, who created Peaky Blinders. It’s his baby and he’s justifiably proud of it.

Wearing a flat cap in honour of the drama’s iconic fashion style, Steve is thrilled at the success of the first series – and bursting with enthusiasm about the next. “The first series was pouring the petrol, the second is lighting the match,” he declares confidently. “I think it will really take off. This series is three times better than the first, which was scene setting and getting to know people. “I’m really pleased that people got it and are so enthusiastic and passionate about it. More than two million watched the last episode, but plenty more have seen it on DVD and abroad. “In France it won an award and it’s been sold to the US. It’s a universal thing. “But it’s really important to me that it’s gone down so well in Birmingham. Apparently the audience share in the West Midlands was double any other region “I feared that Brummies would say it was b*****ks but they loved it. “I love the fact that my team, Birmingham City Football Club, have also got behind Peaky Blinders. I went to one match where 30 per cent of the Blues fans were dressed in caps, dicky bows and waistcoats. They even have a Peaky Blinders chant.

View gallery “At least we gave it a go. I would defend the methods used by the actors. Performance comes first, there’s nothing worse than restricting an actor because they’re thinking too much about getting an accent right. “I remember my grandparents talking to me in a very different accent from today. They had a posh ‘a’ in daance and baath. They said ‘ye-err’ for year, thee and thou. “I feel the pain of people who criticise the accent, for years I’ve had to hear Brummie accents done badly on the telly. But you can’t not do it because of that. “I don’t mind that the family don’t talk like each other. “Aunt Polly has a hint of Scouse because she spent time in Liverpool. “Billy Kimber was a real Brummie gangster but he spent a lot of time in the Elephant and Castle in London, and I wanted him to sound like an outsider. Peaky Blinders is based on fact, but it’s not a history series. “I remember going to matches as a kid and there were these other kids in Small Heath who had their own odd, partly Scouse accent.

“They’d offer to ‘mind your carr siirrr’ for sixpence. I remember coming back after one Wednesday night match to find a seven-year-old girl hitting a nail into a tyre of a car because the driver hadn’t paid up.” The world premiere of the first episode of the second series was held at Birmingham’s Cineworld , thanks to Steve, but even he could not make them film in the city. He says: “It’s a problem finding locations you can control for a length of time that are accurate for the period. “Blame Hitler! The older parts of Birmingham have been bombed or knocked down and the other ones are still lived in, so it’s hard to get access. “We couldn’t find what we wanted until two weeks before filming started, when we heard about these three terraced streets in Liverpool that Ringo Starr had bought to stop his birthplace from being demolished. “No-one lives in them so they were perfect for us. Although we had to cope with tour buses coming round, pointing out Ringo’s house!

“The streets show the Shelbys’ neighbourhood of Watery Lane in Small Heath.” Part of the Black Country Living Museum has been turned into Charlie Strong’s scrap metal yard, which Tommy uses to keep horses and store the contraband which he moves to London by barge. Steve says: “Charlie Strong was a real person, a friend of my granddad’s. He ran a gypsy scrap metal yard in Nechells Green. “My dad took me there as a boy and it was like Aladdin’s Cave times 1000. I remember them sat around the fire, with all the horses, it was like stepping back into the 19th century. “His assistant, Curly (played by Ian Peck) was my great uncle. So-called because he was bald as a badger! “For me, this yard is the heart of it and one of the reasons why I wanted to do Peaky Blinders. You’d go through those metal gates into a world no-one knew anything about. Didicoys, settled gypsies, living in a parallel universe. “It was a last glimpse of the world of Peaky Blinders. “It’s not necessarily something to be proud of, but Birmingham gangs were the biggest and best.

So this is our swagger!” Steve has plans for up to 10 more series and would like to be able to take the Shelby family up to the Second World War. The cast seem as keen as him to continue working on the drama. “The actors were all keen to come back, they have great spirit and enthusiasm for the project,” says Steve. “Sam Neill said it’s the best role he’s ever had. View gallery “I showed the script to Tom Hardy when I directed him in Locke and he loved it. I didn’t think he’d do telly but he said yes straight away. “He’s in four episodes, playing Londoner Alfie Solomons. “Tom really likes to get into the character. He’s been doing his research and phoning me up asking questions. “A lot of the best actors and directors are getting into TV now. “We watch TV in HD and on huge screens, it’s worth making it look amazing like a film. “And actors enjoy getting a chance to really develop over six hours rather than 90 minutes.” The second series moves on to 1922, faster than the actor who played Finn, the youngster Shelby, can grow up.

So the producers held an open casting session in Birmingham which saw teenagers queueing round the block for a chance to be a Peaky Blinder. They found 15-year-old Harry Kirton from Northfield who plays 13-year-old Finn. Director Colm McCarthy says of Harry: “He is a brilliant find, he turned up on the first day of filming and was soon bare knuckle boxing. “We also cast Jordan Bolger, 19, from Radford, in Coventry, as Isaiah, the son of Jeremiah Jesus played by Benjamin Zephaniah . “And we recruited up to eight youngsters to play special extras and regular members of the gang. “We didn’t want stage school kids, we just wanted ordinary Brummies.” Colm, who has worked on Doctor Who, Sherlock and Endeavour, also tackles the Brummie accent issue: “Last year we cast a lot of people at the last minute and they didn’t have time to work on their accents, so there was a struggle. “We felt we could improve on that, so they’ve had access to a dialect coach much earlier. “Everything is looking good.

Cillian Murphy is on fire, he’s come back with a vengeance with a new story arc for where Tommy is going. “And Tom Hardy has something very exciting for us, it’s different from anything we’ve seen him do before.” Also watching the filming is the big cheese from America, Caryn Mandabach. She has produced hit shows like Roseanne, The Cosby Show, Third Rock From The Sun and Nurse Jackie. Now Caryn Mandabach Productions has taken on Peaky Blinders. She says: “Steve Knight came to us with the idea and we sold it to the BBC. He is a bloody genius! “I’ve done a lot of comedy but there shouldn’t be a distinction between product that has humorous elements in it. The Sopranos was funny. We shouldn’t mistake serious drama for worthiness. “Until you have 12 episodes, it’s difficult to make a sale in the US, but we’ve sold it to France, Germany, Canada and Australia. “And it will be shown in America now there are two series, and without a doubt we want to do more. “I’m from Chicago so I feel a kindred spirit in Birmingham. Our cities are twinned and I feel a connection.

Like London and Birmingham, New York has the swagger but Chicago gets on with the work. “I like the Brummie accent, I don’t know why everyone else finds it hard to understand. It’s a mystery to me, I find it easy. I don’t think it will need subtitles in America.” Producer Laurie Borg is new to the second series and admits he hadn’t actually watched the first when he got the job. “But I watched the DVD and loved it,” he says hurriedly. “I have to try to emulate the brilliance of the first series, but what we are doing now is bigger, better and more expensive with a budget of just over £1million an episode. “It will look and sound glorious.” * Peaky Blinders is screened on BBC2 on Thursday at 9pm. Most Read Most Recent Peaky Blinders - Today Tv Series Peaky Blinders 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 4.00 A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

For downloading the last episode of Peaky Blinders please click on the link below and for download the rest of the episode please scroll down to find rest season and episodes. Direct Download S03E06 Peaky Blinders Tv Series Peaky Blinders on PS4, PS3, PS Vita | Official PlayStation®Store UK Season 3 See Season Description Cillian Murphy returns as the spearhead of Birmingham's most feared gang in this epic drama about organised crime. The action has moved on two years to 1924 and, as Tommy starts married life, he is more determined than ever to go legitimate and keep his family safe. But he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue more lethal than anything he has yet encountered. News, interviews, photos and clips for the BBC TV series Peaky Blinders What's On Peaky Blinders Television drama set in Birmingham after the First World War. It follows the Peaky Blinders criminal gang, so called because of the hidden razor blades concealed in their caps which turned the headgear into weapons. First broadcast in September 2013 the series included Cillian Murphy and Sam Neill in the cast.

The second series was broadcast in October 2014 with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley added to the cast. Peaky Blinders, Britain's answer to Boardwalk Empire | Television & radio | The Guardian Peaky Blinders, Britain's answer to Boardwalk Empire Creator Steven Knight and star Cillian Murphy discuss the BBC's epic new gangster drama Friday 6 September 2013 09.00 EDT First published on Friday 6 September 2013 09.00 EDT Share on Messenger Close It represents an amazing period," says Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, of the British post-WWI drama whose impact some have predicted will parallel that of Boardwalk Empire in the USA. "As well as the upheaval, there was a lot of drug-taking, a lot of hedonism. The start of modernity, but a false start." The opening episode begins in a Chinatown district, its inhabitants scurrying anxiously about. As we pan back towards a muddy street, it's clear that this is the early 20th century – New York, San Francisco, London, perhaps.

The source of the consternation emerges – a man on a horse, plodding down an avenue of hovels, scattering the frightened locals. Determinedly, he performs a ritual involving the blowing of coloured powder into the horse's face. Finally, he speaks, in a thick accent, and the screen's date stamp confirms it – we're in Birmingham, 1919, and the magical-seeming ritual is part of a racing scam. This Is England as it's never been seen before. This scene pops up unexpectedly on the big screen in the empty BFI theatre behind Cillian Murphy , who plays Tommy Shelby, young leader of the Peaky Blinders gang (named after the razors they put in their caps). It embarrasses him initially, but he's then held rapt by the voluptuousness with which the scene is shot. Murphy is known for his starring roles in 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, though he needed little persuading to take the lead in Peaky Blinders. Like many of today's best actors, hungry for substance, he understands that the small screen is where most of the big things are happening right now.

"I've always followed the story regardless of the medium," he says, "but the gap between film and TV is now very small, in terms of production values, crossover of talent. And that's a very positive thing." The points of comparison between Peaky Blinders and HBO's Boardwalk Empire are conspicuous. Both are set immediately after the first world war in a gangland in which the future is up for grabs; and both feature a returning soldier shattered and embittered by his war experiences. "Tommy is one of those men who came back from this war horrifically damaged, who were spat back into society without any counselling," says Murphy. "And, of course, a lot of them brought their weapons home with them. There were a lot of guns around at the time. Tommy has a huge disdain for authority – everything he was told is a lie." The show, however, is no pale British attempt to ape an American success. Peaky Blinders was conceived long before Boardwalk Empire – Steven Knight first pitched it to Channel 4 12 years ago. That the BBC have so willingly taken it up now is evidence of British TV's newfound, expanding ambitions following the success of American longform dramas.

Peaky Blinders represents a confident advance into territory recently staked out by the likes of Ripper Street. In 1919, Birmingham was the biggest industrial city in the world. Yet it has always been considered deeply unfashionable when it comes to settings for TV drama, while cities like Liverpool have been consecrated by the likes of Alan Bleasdale. "It is unfashionable," agrees Birmingham-born Knight. "In fact, it's almost invisible. The stories for Peaky Blinders came through my family – my Mum and Dad lived in Small Heath as kids, and were involved in the illegal betting industry. Off-track betting was illegal, so there were a lot of bookies, a lot of gangsters with guns. I had these snapshots of stories that I'd never read about in the history books. Back then in Birmingham, there were a lot of demobbed soldiers with guns and knives, very violent, a lot of personal problems because of the war. Meanwhile, there was money to be made in illegal betting, there were communists, the IRA – you had this massive mixture which cried out to be turned into a drama." Cillian Murphy, back on the small screen.

Photograph: Robert Viglasky What's more, this ultimately very British series homes in what was a pivotal year for the country as a whole. In 1919, there were genuine fears of a Bolshevik-style revolution in the UK, rocked as it was by a series of strikes, as well as the rise of the suffragette movement and the situation in Ireland, particularly felt in Birmingham with its large Irish-Catholic community. All of this is reflected in Peaky Blinders, whose authentically multi-ethnic cast of characters includes an idealistic young communist, Benjamin Zephaniah as a preacher and – as formidably played by Sam Neill – Police Chief C.I. Campbell. Campbell was sent personally by the government's newly appointed Minister for War and Air, one Winston Churchill, to put down fomenting disorder and uprising in Birmingham. Neill, who might have wasted his career playing James Bond had a 1980s audition gone a different way, is another actor who has relished the meatier roles TV has offered him. He was a brilliant Cardinal Wolsey in The Tudors, an ill-fated, modernist politician in red robes.

Here, he brings a fury and relish to his role as Churchill's hammer. He's particularly concerned by a cache of guns that have fallen into the hands of the Shelbys – his eventual face-to-face with Tommy is a wonderful contrast of vivid screen presences, brimstone versus translucence. "He pursues his cause with such energy," says Northern Irish-born, New Zealand-based Neill. "He's a rich, complex character. He has terrible, terrible flaws. Like a lot of characters who obsess about corruption, their obsessions come from a terrible self-knowledge. And I have an appalling fondness for him. In fact, I became aghast at just how fond I became of him." So well-drawn are the fictional characters that when Churchill himself appears briefly in the series, albeit ably played by Andy Nyman, he seems like a caricature. But then this future war hero was going through a somewhat pop-eyed, J. Edgar Hoover-style phase at this point in history. "At the time, people worried for Churchill's sanity," says Knight.

"He was so convinced there was going to be a Bolshevik revolution, he had to be taken out of office temporarily." Peaky Blinders already feels like it has a life well beyond its opening six episodes, with multiple collision courses already set in train on all fronts, involving gangs, the authorities, bookmakers and old wartime comrades. "That's the joy of doing this," says Knight. "Film is great, but there is an absolute insistence on the arc that the lead characters have to go through to become a better person." Tommy Shelby is a paradoxical character: ruthless, yet with an almost angelic aura; youthful, but with the air of one who has already seen it all. He's a clear-eyed soul who rejects the "fantasy" of communism – like Michael Corleone, he's dedicated solely to the family. And while he's a winner, poised and self-possessed, he's also a broken man, apparently closed to intimate relationships, reliant on "self-medication". "TV's new protagonists are what we used to call anti-heroes in the 70s," says Murphy. "They were pushed out of mainstream cinema to make way for more clean-cut, infallible types.

Whereas nowadays, in TV, you think about Breaking Bad, House Of Cards, The Sopranos, you have characters with terrible weaknesses and yet you identify with them – you want to spend time with them." Tommy Shelby is just such a character. For Murphy, this looks set to be the role that truly sears him on to the public consciousness. Peaky Blinders starts Thu, 9pm, BBC2 Julia Raeside: Gypsy caravans, family feuds, Ada and Freddy caught in flagrante – it's been a better week, but those accents are still all over the place Published: 19 Sep 2013 Julia Raeside's episode blog: This Birmingham-set gangster drama is British telly trying to do US-style box set viewing. But it's styled like a John Lewis ad with almost as many cliches. Will you keep watching? Published: 12 Sep 2013 As the capo di tutti capi of crime videogames returns in extravagant style, its creator insists that the console is now mightier than the movie camera Published: 7 Sep 2013

Question: In which city was the TV series Peaky Blinders set?
Answer: BIRMINGHAM